Bridging Payment Barriers, AI Gaps: How DaicesHub Plans To Redefine Nigeria’s Edtech Space

Nigeria’s fast-growing digital learning ecosystem continues to face structural bottlenecks, particularly in cross-border payments and access to monetisation tools for local instructors. In this interview, Samuel Olawale Francis, founder of DaicesHub – a Nigerian-based AI-powered learning and consultation platform built for instructors, learners, and organisations – speaks to OLAMIDE OJUOKAIYE on how personal frustrations with global platforms like Coursera and Udemy inspired a homegrown alternative designed to integrate learning, consultation, and corporate training powered by artificial intelligence.

How did your personal experience with payment restrictions on platforms inspire the creation of DaicesHub, particularly in addressing the challenges Nigerians face in paying for online courses or receiving payments as instructors?

I am the CEO of Daily IT Solutions. It’s a software company that also offers consultancy, enterprise solutions, and app reviews, among other things. So, the idea for DaicesHub came about in 2023, and it was launched in February 2026.

The trigger is personal, because it also, transcended me as a person, what I’m complaining about, several other people complain about that same thing, but it’s one person who will now turn up to resolve that issue. For instance, if you want to take a course, say, on Coursera or Udemy, you might need an international card to purchase it because those platforms are not Nigerian-based. You cannot make a bank transfer from your fintech or traditional bank to pay for those courses.

And if you are a consultant or an instructor with something to teach, you will also encounter many challenges as a Nigerian when launching on international platforms like Coursera or Udemy. You have to register with PayPal, and as a Nigerian, PayPal cannot pay you. Unless you have to find a way to contact someone abroad to pay PayPal for you. Those are some of the limitations Nigerians face, and that was what triggered me to build the platform.

So what is your new EdTech platform doing differently for Nigerian learners, creatives, and instructors?

With DaicesHub, you don’t have to go through all the rigours of what some of these international platforms throw at us. This is an indigenous, open platform easy for anyone to use. If you are an instructor and you have a video course you want to launch, you can launch it directly on the platform, and buyers will pay through our standard Nigerian account. Whether it’s a traditional bank or a Fintech, you receive your money directly, and it’s automated. So we built the system to do automatic pay-in and automatic pay-out. And it is to be sent out directly into your Naira account as an instructor on the platform.

As an EdTech platform, what criteria and quality control measures have you put in place to ensure that only credible, market-ready content is made available to learners?

The platform we have is open. So if, for instance, you have any business and feel you can teach people, it will be assessed, and a price will be set. Before we approve an instructor to be on the platform, they must have at least five years of experience and a proven track record, and the courses are reviewed regularly to ensure they are tangible and market-ready.

Do you recruit instructors? And what is the revenue-sharing formula for all parties coming on board?

We do not recruit instructors. Rather, as an organisation, we provide a platform for the service of instructors who are learners or those who need to be served. However, we are working to purchase educational materials from institutions so we can offer them for free.

Meanwhile, on the revenue-sharing formula, we use a commission-based model. After reviewing and approving a course for the platform, there is a flat rate of 80-20.  The instructor takes 80 per cent, and the platform takes 20 per cent. This is automated. Once you’re paid, you’ll see it in your dashboard, enter your account information, press’ pay into my account,’ and receive your money instantly.

How long did it take you to build this Edtech platform, and what distinguishes the platform from other global competitors in the education tech space?

The concept began in 2023, and since then, we have been working on it. However, it took us until this February to launch the product to market because we wanted to perfect the entire process.

Some of the things that delayed the launch in 2025 were the integration of AI, because we don’t want a platform like this without it.

Unlike conventional learning portals, DaicesHub integrates three services: Learning, Consultation, and Corporate Training, into one ecosystem. Instructors can monetise not just their courses but also their time through paid consultations, while organisations can host internal training modules for staff. What sets us apart is that we are 3-in-1. It’s not just for learning alone. Organisations can train their workers, and experts can offer consultation services.

Artificial intelligence sits at the heart of the platform’s differentiation strategy. Rather than merely hosting AI-related courses, our platform embeds AI tools into its architecture. With the AI integrated into the system, instructors can generate assessment questions directly from their course outline. And learners can ask what course is best for them, and the AI recommends based on their background.

With the AI that is already integrated into this system, you can just have your course outlines and have it generate questions and answers. So all you need to do is insert those questions and answers into your course, and people can take the quiz. The platform gets in touch, and they can get their certificate.

AI can also recommend courses based on personality type and other related factors.